tub-thumper

“Always a-preaching, the old tub-thumper,” I heard William say to himself; but he made no further reference to the subject.

Cushion-smiter, polite rendering of tub-thumper, a clergyman, a preacher.

You talk like a Radical tub-thumper, said Canon Spratte, with disdain.

You ought to have been a preacher—a good, out-and-out, whole-souled tub-thumper.

Well, you tub-thumper, you see that the gentlemen of England are more than a match for pestilent pennyweight rebels.